An exciting TASS Anti-Oppressive Studies seminar “Art at the End of the World: Crisis and Creation in the 1990s” explores the artwork of this period. Students discover the ways that art, culture, politics, and various theoretical movements converged during the decade to produce new ways of knowing, understanding, and creating, which better reflected new realities of a rapidly-changing world.

Non-credit

Residential

Accepts International Students

Financial Aid

What is TASS-AOS?
This summer, high school sophomores and juniors (“rising juniors” and “rising seniors”) will participate in six-week educational programs on topics in the humanities and social sciences, geared towards exploring the ways in which white supremacy and other oppressive powers have shaped social structures.

Telluride works with faculty to create exciting courses designed to inspire young people to explore the histories, politics, literature, art, and other areas within the humanities and social sciences through anti-racist and anti-oppressive frameworks.

Art at the End of the World: Crisis and Creation in the 1990s
Seminar Description: Situated between the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror, the 1990s were an especially fecund and catalytic time in art-making. Fueled by innovations in technology and new media forms, increasing multiculturalism and globalization, and a pervasive concern about “the end”—of the century, of the millennium, of the world—artists across mediums and genres began developing and perfecting new aesthetic approaches and practices that better accounted for and grappled with their lived realities and a rapidly-changing world.

The significant artistic, cultural, social, and political transformations the decade gave rise to are only now starting to garner robust critical attention. In this course, we will build on some of the recent efforts to explore the not-so-distant-past of the 1990s, sharpening particular focus on the ways that art, culture, politics, and various theoretical movements converged during the decade to produce new ways of knowing, understanding, and creating. We will explore artworks that span genres—theater, visual art, film, and television, among them—and that speak to some of the major aesthetic, cultural, and political changes within and across the period.

Simultaneously, we will take up critical questions about globalization, technology, citizenship, sociality, the body, race, gender, and feeling.

What will I get out of TASS-AOS?
At TASS-AOS, you will improve your reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as you explore your interests in and out of the classroom. In order to encourage students in their love of learning, the program does not assign grades. You will also learn about and explore topics and ideas within the humanities and social sciences through an anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens. Finally, you will gain experience with community living and democratic decision-making.

Telluride Association Summer Seminars in Anti-Oppressive Studies (TASS-AOS). Art at the End of the World: Crisis and Creation in the 1990s

Jun 26 - Aug 06

6 weeks

Residential

0 USD

TASS Is Completely Free!
We cover all of the program costs—tuition, books, room and board, and field trips—for every student. If you need, we can help pay for all or part of your travel costs to and from the program.

Financial Aid

We understand that you may normally spend time in the summer working at a job, taking care of family members, or supporting your family in other ways. If this is the situation for you, we can provide additional financial aid to help replace earnings from your summer job. Financial aid decisions are made separately from decisions about program admission, so needing financial aid won’t affect whether you are accepted to the program.